"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
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You still do not get the difference between hearable and listenable.


No, I believe the issue is that YOU don't seem to understand that there
are clear, listenable signals beyond your precious 10mV/m contours.
Perhaps the issue is that once you get outside of those contours, there
are fewer people, fewer homes, fewer sources of interference, and
therefore, clearer reception.

Yes, this is true.. interference is lower outside the metros, so less strong
signals are usable. The real thing is that 60% of the US populaiton is in
the top 50 metros, and by the time you get to the 300th rated market, you
have coverage of over 85% of the US. Most of these areas haved high noise
levels caused by electric lines, computers, etc., that did not exist a few
decades ago (in the case of line noise, electric companies actually cared in
the past, now they laugh at interference complaints).


Please do not tell people what is listenable, because YOU DO NOT KNOW!
PERIOD! Until you go to someone's home or office, and actually LISTEN to
what they are listening to, you are in no position whatsoever to tell them
what they can and cannot listen to. Even then, it becomes a subjective
matter. As it stands, your stats are BS, pure and simple.

The data I have shows what, in the home and at work (Arbitron provides ZIP
data for each) people listen to, and by elimination, what they don't listen
to. The fact is, they do not listen to lesser signals. We have the data,
compiled from review of what amounts to millions of listening incidents over
more than a decade and the software to map the listening. The listening is
concentrated within very tight contours.